On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Danny wrote:
>> My reason for asking is that I'm using MacOS X, which ships from Apple
>> with zlib 1.1.3. Building version 1.2.2 is trivial, but is it worth
>> it?
>
> If you are looking for a reason to upgrade then you may want to
> consider security fixes. I'm not sure, maybe Apple's version was
> already patched for the vulnerabilities found over the past couple of
> years, but it seems strange it would be 1.1.3.
My mistake, MacOS X ships with zlib 1.1.4, which isn't supposed to have
the security problems. But still, it isn't 1.2.
Bill Larson
Received on Thu Nov 04 2004 - 13:08:10 MST
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